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• 9 Sales Highlights from This Year’s Art Basel in Switzerland

  22-09-2021 23:20 via artnews.com
  
  The world’s largest and most important art fair, Art Basel, opened earlier this week in the Swiss city, marking the marquee fair’s first in-person event in Europe since the start of the pandemic. Because of travel restrictions, fewer collectors from the United States and Asia made the journey to Europe, but that didn’t stop the world’s top galleries from making major sales. Below a look at some of what has sold at the fair so far.
  
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• 10 Things To Do In N.H. This Weekend: Capital Arts Fest, Littleton Arts, BIPOC Fest - New Hampshire Public Radio

  22-09-2021 23:06
  
  10 Things To Do In N.H. This Weekend: Capital Arts Fest, Littleton Arts, BIPOC Fest  New Hampshire Public Radio
  
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• ‘The Village Detective: A Song Cycle’ Review: Soviet Film Hero Emerges

  22-09-2021 22:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Bill Morrison, the poet laureate of lost films, turns the story of footage found near Iceland into a history of a slice of Soviet cinema.
  
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• Anish Kapoor Asks $26 Million for one of Central London’s Largest Homes

  22-09-2021 22:39 via artnews.com
  
  Mumbai-born British-Indian artist Sir Anish Kapoor—after a short stint in Israel where he studied electrical engineering, he moved to London in 1973 to study art and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2013—is known for his elegant and enigmatic, sometimes brightly colored, and often monumentally scaled and abstractly biomorphic sculptures that frequently reflect, distort and re-contextualize the scenery around them.
  Now 67 and one of the most influential sculptors of his generat
  
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• What to Watch This Fall

  22-09-2021 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
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• Britney Spears: End Conservatorship, but Remove My Father First

  22-09-2021 21:55 via nytimes.com
  
  The singer’s lawyer requested the installation of a temporary conservator, citing her need to negotiate a prenuptial agreement and ongoing “anguish and harm.”
  
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• Blanton Museum Names Collector Suzanne McFayden as Board Chair

  22-09-2021 21:00 via artnews.com
  
  Collector and patron Suzanne McFayden will serve as the next board chair of the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. She begins in September and succeeds Janet Allen, who was elected chair in 2018.
  “We are incredibly fortunate to now welcome Suzanne McFayden as our new Board Chair at such a momentous time, as we transform the museum experience through the revitalization of our grounds,” Blanton director Simone Wicha said in a statement. “She is a passiona
  
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• Brancusi’s ‘Kiss’ Sculpture Won’t Be Removed from Paris Cemetery, French Court Rules

  22-09-2021 20:51 via artnews.com
  
  A decades-spanning legal battle over a Constantin Brancusi sculpture that has long been a beloved fixture of Paris’s Montparnasse Cemetery has ended in a win for the French state. In July, a French court deemed the marble sculpture, titled The Kiss, a historical monument and integral component of the tombstone it is installed atop, barring its removal from the funeral grounds, Le Figaro reports. For over a decade. the Russian heirs of the woman buried beneath the gravestone had b
  
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• Performing Arts: What's Opening - Sacramento Magazine

  22-09-2021 20:43
  
  Performing Arts: What's Opening  Sacramento Magazine
  
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• 7 Works to Know by Jasper Johns: How to Decode the Artist’s Cryptic Paintings and Prints

  22-09-2021 20:21 via artnews.com
  
  Until 1954, Jasper Johns routinely destroyed his artworks, feeling them somehow inadequate. Then everything changed. He met artist Robert Rauschenberg, with whom he led a romantic relationship, and he was brought into the orbit of experimental composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham, both of whom enhanced Johns’s understanding of the role that everyday life could play in art. “There was a change in my spirit, in my thought and my work, as well as some doubt and terror,&
  
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  22-09-2021 19:50 via nytimes.com
  
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• Barbara Campbell Cooke, 85, Widow of the Slain Sam Cooke, Is Dead

  22-09-2021 19:33 via nytimes.com
  
  They were teenage sweethearts, but their marriage turned tragic, and when she married the protégé singer Bobby Womack, the publicity was intense and the boos were loud.
  
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• As It Expands the Canon, Dia Art Foundation Names Jordan Carter Curator

  22-09-2021 19:01 via artnews.com
  
  The Dia Art Foundation, a New York–based organization known for its prized collection of Minimalist and Conceptual art, has named Jordan Carter as its new curator. Set to begin this December, Carter is currently an associate curator of modern and contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he organized a Ray Johnson survey due to open in late November.
  Over the past two decades, the Dia Art Foundation has made a push to diversify its holdings, which have long skewed white and m
  
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• Review: With Balanchine and Confetti, City Ballet Is Back

  22-09-2021 18:58 via nytimes.com
  
  New York City Ballet opened its fall season on Tuesday with its first full-scale performance since the pandemic began. It felt like a rainbow.
  
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• Review: In ‘Polylogues,’ Dispatches From Non-Monogamy

  22-09-2021 18:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Xandra Nur Clark’s provocatively questing but overlong solo show is a compassionate portal into a topic often treated with prurience.
  
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• Willie Garson, Who Played Stanford Blatch on 'Sex and the City', Dies at 57

  22-09-2021 17:42 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Garson was also known for his role as the con man Mozzie on “White Collar.”
  
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• The Healing Museum

  22-09-2021 16:54 via artnews.com
  
  The idea that making and experiencing art can be therapeutic pervades contemporary culture, so it is no surprise that museums are responding to the collective trauma of Covid-19 by addressing concerns of mental and physical health with unprecedented intensity. The past sixteen months have witnessed a profusion of museum-based healing initiatives. The Queens Museum in New York launched La Ventanita/The Little Window, an online art therapy program for recent immigrants and students at local elemen
  
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• Moor Mother’s Musical Galaxy Grows Even Bigger

  22-09-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Camae Ayewa makes a blend of hip-hop, spoken-word poetry, punk and electro as Moor Mother. In Irreversible Entanglements, she records scalding free jazz. Both have new albums this fall.
  
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• In ‘Nuclear Family,’ a Filmmaker Frames Herself

  22-09-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In her new three-part documentary for HBO, Ry Russo-Young revisits a notable custody case: her own.
  
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• Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’

  22-09-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  He used to say he would be remembered more for his teaching than his ballets. The film “In Balanchine’s Classroom” provides a glimpse of that.
  
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• What to Expect in Private Arts Schools - Manvel High School

  22-09-2021 15:54
  
  What to Expect in Private Arts Schools  Manvel High School
  
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• Dr. Fauci, Movie Star

  22-09-2021 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Fauci,” a new documentary, follows his work in two health crises: AIDS and the coronavirus pandemic. He agreed to participate as long as it didn’t interfere with his work.
  
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• $30 M. Frida Kahlo Self-Portrait Could Break Records at Sotheby’s Sale

  22-09-2021 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  A self-portrait by Frida Kahlo is set to break records at auction this fall. Sotheby’s will offer Kahlo’s Diego y yo (ca. 1940s) during a modern art evening sale in New York this November. The work is expected to fetch $30 million—more than three times the artist’s current auction milestone of $8 million, notched in 2016.
  The soon-to-be-auctioned painting depicts the artist gazing tearfully at the viewer; superimposed on her forehead is an image of her husband, the Mexica
  
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• KW in Berlin's Journey from Derelict Factory to International Art Space

  22-09-2021 14:12 via nytimes.com
  
  In Berlin, the KW Institute for Contemporary Art’s journey from a ruin to a serious art-world player mirrors the transformation of the city around it.
  
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• Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Gets New Opening Date, Key Photo Curator Dies, and More: Morning Links for September 22, 2021

  22-09-2021 14:08 via artnews.com
  
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  A WEDNESDAY MUSEUM BLOTTER: The Guggenheim Museum said that it plans to open its long-awaited Frank Gehry–designed Abu Dhabi branch in 2026, the Art Newspaper reports. The project has been enormously delayed—first announced in 2006, it was at various points slated to open in 2012 and then 2017. Over in
  
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• New Talent: 5 Painters Inspired by Digital Mediums

  22-09-2021 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  Whether it’s the crude, flat lines of Microsoft Paint or the clay-like forms made in 3D rendering software programs like Rhino, the digital age has produced a number of fascinating textures, vocabularies, and styles for traditional artists to play with. In 2016, Museum Brandhorst hosted an exhibition on that demonstrated as much titled “Painting 2.0: Expression in the Digital Age.” Curated by Achim Hochdörfer, David Joselit, Manuela Ammer, and Tonio Kröner, the show w
  
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• ‘Undine,’ ‘My Zoe’ and More Offbeat Streaming Gems

  22-09-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  From slasher musicals to water nymph dramas, we recommend a number of unusual films to breathe new life into your streaming routine.
  
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• ‘Intrusion’ Review: We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This

  22-09-2021 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This domestic thriller from Netflix is painfully dumb and laughably obvious.
  
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• What About the Heroine’s Journey?

  22-09-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Harvard scholar Maria Tatar has made a career of studying fairy tales and folklore. Now she is taking aim at Joseph Campbell and showing us the women he left out of the story.
  
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• Michael Gandolfini and the Riddle of Tony Soprano

  22-09-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Many Saints of Newark,” James Gandolfini’s son takes on his father’s iconic role. But knowing his dad hardly prepared him for the work ahead.
  
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• In ‘Star Wars: Visions,’ Lucasfilm and Anime Join Forces, and Go Rogue

  22-09-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Disney+ collaboration between Lucasfilm and seven anime studios pays tribute to the Japanese influence on “Star Wars” — and throws out the canon.
  
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• A Broken Frame, and DNA Traces, Led to Arrest in van Gogh Theft

  22-09-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Dutch prosecutors said that DNA evidence tied a man to the thefts of a van Gogh and a Frans Hals painting; he denies the charges.
  
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• A Black Theater Flourished in New York. 200 Years Ago.

  22-09-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The African Theater, which had its first performance on Sept. 17, 1821, is both an inspiration and a cautionary tale.
  
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• Late Night (and BTS) Goes to the U.N. General Assembly

  22-09-2021 08:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Trevor Noah referred to the U.N. event as “the annual gathering that honestly could just be a Zoom.”
  
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• W&J to host arts series event, poetry reading - Observer-Reporter

  22-09-2021 06:15
  W&J to host arts series event, poetry reading  Observer-Reporter
  
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• Rangeley arts group recognizes photography show winners | Lewiston Sun Journal - Lewiston Sun Journal

  22-09-2021 06:00
  
  Rangeley arts group recognizes photography show winners | Lewiston Sun Journal  Lewiston Sun Journal
  
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• Mountain Heritage Arts & Crafts Festival returns for 45th year - Martinsburg Journal

  22-09-2021 05:00
  Mountain Heritage Arts & Crafts Festival returns for 45th year  Martinsburg Journal
  
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• Arts Barn Issues Call for Proposals for Theater Series | City News | Gaithersburg, MD - gaithersburgmd.gov

  22-09-2021 04:56
  Arts Barn Issues Call for Proposals for Theater Series | City News | Gaithersburg, MD  gaithersburgmd.gov
  
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• Arts industry ponders return to venue-based entertainment - fingerlakes1.com

  22-09-2021 04:47
  
  Arts industry ponders return to venue-based entertainment  fingerlakes1.com
  
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• Nearly $1 million given to dozens of Memphis arts organizations through ArtsMemphis grant - WATN - Local 24

  22-09-2021 04:24
  
  Nearly $1 million given to dozens of Memphis arts organizations through ArtsMemphis grant  WATN - Local 24
  
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• THE MIDDLETOWN ARTS CENTER AND DUNBAR REPERTORY COMPANY PRESENTS 'MR. RICKEY CALLS A MEETING', OCT. 15-17. - TAPinto.net

  22-09-2021 03:53
  
  THE MIDDLETOWN ARTS CENTER AND DUNBAR REPERTORY COMPANY PRESENTS 'MR. RICKEY CALLS A MEETING', OCT. 15-17.  TAPinto.net
  
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• Willie Garson, Who Played Standford Blatch on Sex and the City, Dies at 57

  22-09-2021 03:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Garson was also known for his role as the con man Mozzie on “White Collar.”
  
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• Stores, Apartments, Hotel Coming To Parking Lot By Tulsa's Performing Arts Center - news9.com KWTV

  22-09-2021 02:48
  
  Stores, Apartments, Hotel Coming To Parking Lot By Tulsa's Performing Arts Center  news9.com KWTV
  
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• ArtsMemphis data shows collective loss of $24 million for arts organizations, readies more emergency funds via its Artist Emergency Fund. - Memphis Business Journal - Memphis Business Journal

  22-09-2021 02:37
  ArtsMemphis data shows collective loss of $24 million for arts organizations, readies more emergency funds via its Artist Emergency Fund. - Memphis Business Journal  Memphis Business Journal
  
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• Sumter's Fall for the Arts event postponed because of COVID-19 concerns - Sumter Item

  22-09-2021 02:03
  
  Sumter's Fall for the Arts event postponed because of COVID-19 concerns  Sumter Item
  
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• Former Eckstein School Will Be A Cultural Arts Center - WVXU

  22-09-2021 01:37
  
  Former Eckstein School Will Be A Cultural Arts Center  WVXU
  
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• The Arts are Coming Back! - Shepherd Express

  22-09-2021 01:35
  
  The Arts are Coming Back!  Shepherd Express
  
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• Arts council offers new program for songwriters | News | hpenews.com - High Point Enterprise

  22-09-2021 01:12
  Arts council offers new program for songwriters | News | hpenews.com  High Point Enterprise
  
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• Arts Council for Wyoming County's 45th annual Letchworth Arts & Crafts Show & Sale headed to Perry Village Park - Niagara Frontier Publications

  22-09-2021 00:52
  
  Arts Council for Wyoming County's 45th annual Letchworth Arts & Crafts Show & Sale headed to Perry Village Park  Niagara Frontier Publications
  
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• Elton John & Tim Rice's Aida Opens at Osceola Arts - Osceola News-Gazette

  22-09-2021 00:41
  
  Elton John & Tim Rice's Aida Opens at Osceola Arts  Osceola News-Gazette
  
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